Business Development Executive

About PGAGI

At PGAGI, we believe in a future where AI and human intelligence coexist in harmony, creating a world that is smarter, faster, and better. We are not just building AI; we are shaping a future where AI is a fundamental and positive force for businesses, societies, and the planet.

Position Overview

We are seeking a motivated Research Intern to join our AI research team, focusing on Text-to-Speech (TTS) and Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) technologies. The intern will play a crucial role in evaluating our proprietary models against industry benchmarks, analyzing competitive voice agent platforms, and contributing to cutting-edge research in speech AI technologies.

Key Responsibilities:

Model Evaluation & Benchmarking

• Conduct comprehensive evaluation of our TTS and ASR models against existing state-of-the-art models
• Design and implement evaluation metrics and frameworks for speech quality assessment
• Perform comparative analysis of model performance across different datasets and use cases
• Generate detailed reports on model strengths, weaknesses, and improvement opportunities

Competitive Analysis

• Evaluate and compare our voice agent platform with existing solutions (Vapi, Bland AI, and other competitors)
• Analyze feature sets, performance metrics, and user experience across different voice agent platforms
• Conduct technical deep-dives into competitive architectures and methodologies
• Provide strategic recommendations based on competitive landscape analysis

Research & Innovation

• Monitor and analyze emerging trends in ASR, TTS, and voice AI technologies
• Research novel approaches to improve ASR and TTS model performance
• Investigate new architectures, training techniques, and optimization methods
• Stay current with academic literature and industry developments in speech AI

Model Development & Training

• Assist in training TTS and ASR models on various datasets
• Implement and experiment with different model architectures and configurations
• Perform model fine-tuning for specific use cases and domains
• Optimize models for different deployment scenarios (edge, cloud, real-time)
• Conduct data preprocessing and augmentation for training datasets

Documentation & Reporting

• Maintain detailed documentation of experiments, methodologies, and results
• Prepare technical reports and presentations for internal stakeholders
• Contribute to research publications and technical blog posts
• Create visualization and analysis tools for model performance tracking

Technical Competencies

• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
• Ability to design and conduct rigorous experiments
• Experience with statistical analysis and performance metrics
• Understanding of audio signal processing fundamentals
• Knowledge of distributed training and large-scale model development

Duration: 6 months

Compensation:

• Joining Bonus: INR 2,500 one-time bonus upon joining.
• Monthly Stipend: Base stipend of INR 8,000 per month, with the potential to increase up to INR 20,000 based on performance evaluations.
• Performance-Based Pay Scale: Eligibility for monthly performance-based bonuses, rewarding exceptional project contributions and teamwork.
• Additional Benefits: Access to professional development opportunities, including workshops, tech talks, and mentoring sessions.

What You'll Gain

Learning Opportunities

• Hands-on experience with state-of-the-art speech AI technologies
• Exposure to full model development lifecycle from research to deployment
• Mentorship from experienced AI researchers and engineers
• Opportunity to contribute to cutting-edge research projects

Professional Development

• Experience with industry-standard tools and methodologies
• Opportunity to present research findings to technical and business stakeholders
• Potential for research publication and conference presentations
• Networking opportunities within the AI research community

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Must have skills:

1. GCP - GCS, PubSub, Dataflow or DataProc, Bigquery, Airflow/Composer, Python(preferred)/Java

2. ETL on GCP Cloud - Build pipelines (Python/Java) + Scripting, Best Practices, Challenges

3. Knowledge of Batch and Streaming data ingestion, build End to Data pipelines on GCP

4. Knowledge of Databases (SQL, NoSQL), On-Premise and On-Cloud, SQL vs No SQL, Types of No-SQL DB (At least 2 databases)

5. Data Warehouse concepts - Beginner to Intermediate level

Role & Responsibilities:

● Work with business users and other stakeholders to understand business processes.

● Ability to design and implement Dimensional and Fact tables

● Identify and implement data transformation/cleansing requirements

● Develop a highly scalable, reliable, and high-performance data processing pipeline to extract, transform and load data

from various systems to the Enterprise Data Warehouse

● Develop conceptual, logical, and physical data models with associated metadata including data lineage and technical

data definitions

● Design, develop and maintain ETL workflows and mappings using the appropriate data load technique

● Provide research, high-level design, and estimates for data transformation and data integration from source

applications to end-user BI solutions.

● Provide production support of ETL processes to ensure timely completion and availability of data in the data

warehouse for reporting use.

● Analyze and resolve problems and provide technical assistance as necessary. Partner with the BI team to evaluate,

design, develop BI reports and dashboards according to functional specifications while maintaining data integrity and

data quality.

● Work collaboratively with key stakeholders to translate business information needs into well-defined data

requirements to implement the BI solutions.

● Leverage transactional information, data from ERP, CRM, HRIS applications to model, extract and transform into

reporting & analytics.

● Define and document the use of BI through user experience/use cases, prototypes, test, and deploy BI solutions.

● Develop and support data governance processes, analyze data to identify and articulate trends, patterns, outliers,

quality issues, and continuously validate reports, dashboards and suggest improvements.

● Train business end-users, IT analysts, and developers.

Role & responsibilities

1. Develop and maintain native Android applications using Kotlin and Java.

2. Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect Android applications to back-end services

3. Work with APIs, third-party libraries and Familiarity with MVC, MVVM.

4. Proficient in code versioning tools including GitHub and Gitlab.

5. Familiarity with push notifications,and cloud messaging.

6. Identifying potential problems and resolving application bugs.

7. Fixing application bugs before the final release.

8. Publishing application on Play Store.

9. Maintain code quality and Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications.

10. Collaborate with cross-functional teams for seamless integration.

11. Stay up to date with the latest industry trends and technologies.

Preferred candidate profile

• Minimum 3+ Years of Android Developer Experience or Created an App Before.
• Strong knowledge of Kotlin and Java.
• Experience with Jetpack Compose, Android Jetpack Components, Room, and Coroutines.
• Experience with UI/UX Designing, RESTful APIs and third-party libraries.
• Understanding of agile development methodologies.
• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills.
• Excellent communication and teamwork abilities.
• Knowledge of Firebase Integration is an added advantage.
• Previous experience in fintech industry considered as plus point.

Perks and benefits

• Competitive Salary and Professional development opportunities and training.
• Opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies in a fast-paced environment.
• Collaborative and supportive work environment.

Technical Project Manager

As a Technical Project Manager, you will be leading a team to build a highly scalable and extensible big data platform that provides the foundation for collecting, storing, modelling, and analysing massive data sets from multiple channels.

Responsibilities

1. Align Sigmoid with key Client initiatives

• Interface daily with customers across leading Fortune 500 companies to understand strategic requirements.
• Connect with CIO, VP, and Director level clients on a regular basis.
• Travel to client locations.
• Ability to understand business requirements and tie them to technology solutions.

2. Build a delivery plan with domain experts and stay on track

• Design, develop and evolve highly scalable and fault-tolerant distributed components using Big Data technologies.
• Excellent experience in application development and support, integration development, and data management.

3. Build team and manage it on a day-to-day basis

• Play the key role of hiring manager to build the future of Sigmoid.
• Guide developers in day-to-day design and coding tasks, stepping into code if needed.
• Define your team structure, hire, and train your team as needed.

4. Stay up to date on the latest technology to ensure the greatest ROI for customer & Sigmoid

• Hands-on coder with good understanding of enterprise-level code.
• Design and implement APIs, abstractions, and integration patterns to solve challenging distributed computing problems.
• Experience in defining technical requirements, data extraction, data transformation, automating jobs, productionizing jobs, and exploring new big data technologies within a Parallel Processing environment.

5. Culture

• Must be a strategic thinker with the ability to think unconventional / out-of-box.
• Analytical and data-driven orientation.
• Raw intellect, talent, and energy are critical.
• Entrepreneurial and Agile: understands the demands of a private, high-growth company.
• Ability to be both a leader and hands-on "doer".

Qualifications

• 7+ years track record of relevant work experience and a Computer Science or related technical discipline is required.
• Dynamic leader who has directly managed a team of highly competent developers in a fast-paced work environment.
• Experience in architecture and delivery of enterprise-scale applications.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in Agile methodology.
• Development and support experience in Big Data domain.
• Architecting, developing, implementing, and maintaining Big Data solutions.
• Experience with database modelling and development, data mining, and warehousing.
• Experience with Hadoop ecosystem (HDFS, MapReduce, Oozie, Hive, Impala, Spark, Kerberos, Kafka, etc).

We are looking for a MEAN Stack developer to join our Technology team. As a full-stack developer, you will work closely with our Technical Architectural members to develop microservices that focus on the educational needs of Parents and Students globally. If you have excellent programming skills and a passion for developing applications from scratch, we would like to meet you. Working at Early Steps Academy is one of the best opportunities to get first-hand experience in an early-stage startup, explore different domains, and achieve your career goals.

Qualifications:

• A minimum of 3 years of relevant experience.
• Strong programming skills in Javascript/Typescript with Object-oriented design.
• Hands-on expertise in building reusable components and independently publishable packages.
• Strong experience in HTML, Angular(2+)/React, ExpressJS, MongoDB, NodeJS, and CSS frameworks.
• Practitioner of IaC (AWS), CI/CD, and Containerization(Docker).
• Accessibility, Server Side Rendering, Pre-rendering, Serverless, and Agile.
• Ability to adapt quickly to a new direction.

• Managing clients by working closely with them and understanding their business needs and challenges
• On-boarding new clients and also developing and maintaining healthy and professional relationships with current clients
• Maintaining high levels of customer engagement and customer satisfaction in turn leading to continued business from key accounts
• Educating and promoting the company’s services to the clients
• Acting as the point-of-contact for the clients and also mediating between the clients and the company
• Handling and solving escalations from clients, as and when received and making sure the client account is retained
• Renewing subscriptions on a timely-basis
• Compiling and presenting reports to the business by maintaining and managing relevant data
• Managing a team of customer success executives and leading them towards achieving the business goals
• Partnering and working closely with internal teams to meet the business needs of the customers

What you need to have:

• Graduation is a must
• Relevant experience in customer success management and also experienced in handling a team
• B2B SaaS background
• Willingness to work 6-days a week
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• An analytical mindset and also go-getter attitude
• Expertise in MS Suite
• Min experience of 2 years

Responsibilities:

• Build the foundation of our supply side (enterprise) product from scratch. Maintain high standards of pixel perfect Ui’s and efficient User Experiences. 
• Our Supply Side ecosystem involves a plethora of products such as Catalog Management, Analytics Dashboard, Orders Processing, Finance Reconciliation, Notification centres etc. Develop a deep understanding of the mentioned use cases and build the systems for scale.
• Coordinate with Product managers, Product Designers & Backend Developers and outline sprints and tasks on a weekly basis.
• Conduct Comprehensive Unit tests before passing features to QAs. This requires a good top level understanding of backend infrastructure.
• Maintain High level of Code Quality and constantly optimize for performance and user experience.
• Be Collaborative. Self reliant and always keep pushing the limits of your knowledge.

• Looking for someone Smart, having a great personality, effective communication skills, and new-age Human Experience & Engagement Accelerator skills.
• Some who really loves this role and are excited about making people's life easier at work.
• Some regularly learn and make necessary changes that add value to their responsibility & outcomes.

What you will be doing:

• Opportunity to Spearhead and drive the people's strategy in synergy with business strategy.
• Contributing to Designing the organizational structure and makes required changes to support the required talent demand and engaging in making them effective for smooth operations as per business plan.
• Building employer branding, running community activities & operations thus attracting & retaining great talent and controlling potential risks and attrition.
• Forecasting talent requirements and overseeing hiring.
• Conceptualizing, strategizing & driving Employee Engagement
• Work closely with all functions & business units to address employee issues and resolving them proactively
• Building a great culture and making the Organization a Great Place to Work.
• Leading and leveraging Human Resourcing processes within the business (Performance Management, Salary Planning/Reward Management, Succession Planning, and Talent Management).
• Responsible for Handling Entire HR Operations.
• Lead the leadership development interventions in line with future talent strategy.
• Analyzing compensation policies, government regulations, and prevailing wage/salary rates for developing competitive compensation plans and maintaining an equitable compensation system; implementing rewards & recognition programs
• Develop and implement innovative engagement schemes and Human Resourcing interventions to achieve and sustain the highest engagement score.
• Ensure all back-end HR operational processes are managed well in terms of TAT, accuracy, frequency & compliance leading to seamless service delivery.